Weed puller



May 9, 1933. v c R COOK 1,908,322

WEED FULLER Filed April '7, 1932 ZIP-IO l6 Inventor ILL ducie (aw/Z Patented s 9, 1933 1,908,322

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE w CLAUDE R. COOK, F ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA WEED FULLER Application filed April 7, 1932. Serial No. 603,886.

This invention appertains to new and usevided with a right angularly twisted porful improvements in weed pullers and more tion 15 curved at its outer end as at 16 to particularly to a novel hand device which provideaclaw complemental with theblade 8. may be manually operated by one hand of The free end of the arm 14 is pivotally the operator. connected as at 17 to the lower end of the 65 The principal object of the present inrod 11 and obviously, by pulling upwardly vention is to provide a weed puller which on the handle 12, the rod 11 will be lifted in the operation of pulling a weed will not and the claw 16 will be moved downwardly leave a noticeable opening in the ground. to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 1.

Another important object of the inven- In the operation of the device, the handle 60 tion is to provide a weed puller which can 6 is forced downwardly so that the blade 8 be operated quickly and easily and which will be urged in to the ground so as to cut will be of low cost of manufacture. through the roots of a weed. Subsequently, These and other important objects and the handle 12 is pulled, which obviously 15 advantages of the invention will become apmoves the claw 16 against the weed, clamp- 65 parent to the reader of the following speciing the weed between the blade 8 and the fication, claw. By subsequent upward movement of In the drawing the implement, the entire weed can be pulled Figure 1 represents a side elevational from the ground. 20 view of the device in its entirety. While the foregoing specification sets 70 Fig. 2 represents a fragmentary front eleforth the, invention in specific terms, it is vational view of the implement. to be understood that numerous changes in Fig. 3 represents a cross sectional view th shap Size and materials may be retaken substantially on line 3-3 of Fig. 1. sorted to without departing from the spirit Referring to the drawing wherein like and scope of the invention as claimed here- 75 numerals designate like parts, it can be seen inafter. that numeral 5 represents an elongated bar Having thus described my invention, what which is provided with a laterally disposed I claim as new is handle 6 at the upper end thereof. A11 mplement of the character de- The lower end of this bar 5 is bifurcated scribed comprising a handle bar, a blade 80 to receive the shank 7 of the transversely PTOj tiHg from one end of the handle bar, u v d bl d 8, Thi shank 7 and blad said blade being curved laterally with re- 8 are constructed of a single strip of strip spect to the bar, and a pivotal claw on the iron or the like, the blade 8 being twisted end portion of the bar adjacent the blade t a iti on a plane at right angles to for cooperation with the blade, said clawbe- 85 the shank 7 and both transversely and loning constructed of strap iron and twisted gitudinally curved with the extremity theret it in r iate portion to provide a of beveled to provide a cutting edge 9, shoulder abuttable with the blade when in The bar 5 is provided with several eye n r cted-position. Y

members 10l0 which afford guide means I11 testimony whereof I afiix my signa- 90 for the slidable rod 11, the rod 11 being ture. V 7 provided with a laterally disposed handle 12 CLAUDE R. COOK. at its upper end in spaced parallel relation to the handle 6. Interposed between the handle 12 and the upper eye member 10 is 96 the extensible coiled spring 13 for normally maintaining the rod 11 urged in a downward direction.

Swingably mounted on the lower portion of the shank 7 is the arm 14 which is pro- 1 100 

